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"Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men."
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"Even as I hold youI think of you as someone gonefar, far away. Your eyes the colorof pennies in a bowl of dark honeybringing sweet light to someone elseyour black hair slipping through my fingersis the flash of your head goingaround a corneryour smile, breaking before me,the flippant last turnof a revolving door,emptying you out, changed,away from me.Even as I hold youI am letting go."
"Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing."
"Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing."
"Those who are made can be unmade."
"A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind. It was now deep autumn in the mountains."
"No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed."
"It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting."
"Time melts away in every passing moment."
"It is the nature of the circumstances to disperse. If there is attachment with the circumstance, there will be abhorrence when they get dispersed."
"Feelings are fleeting, no matter how eart-shattering they seem; they never last, always change."
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